Mnemonics: "Gee" that chickie is cute!Jī is a word for domesticated fowl.Chickie ‘little/baby chicken’ sounds something like "she yeow ji.In pinyin it is written like this: xiǎojī Hens don't say "moo" but ‘hen’ in Chinese is a "moo" ji (mother jī). In pinyin it is written like this:mǔjī Turkey, another domesticated fowl, also has "jī" at the end, but listen to this first part "huo" – pronounced something like whoa! with a strong h-sound.Huǒ is ‘fire.’A Huǒjī is a ‘fire fowl,’ – a name chosen because oftom turkeys’
colorful tail feathers. Ducks waddle around in YARDS.In Chinese, yadz is ‘duck’ or ‘ducks’.It sounds something like YARDS minus the r-sound.It is spelled yāzi.
Geese make a sound like “uh, uh, uh. That’s how they got their Chinese name, spelled é and pronounced “uh.”
In Chinese, ‘a piece’ (of something) sounds a bit likeE SQUARE.Drop the s and you have E QUARE.Make the vowel of QUARE rime with BAR and you have E QUAR.‘Sky’ in Chinese is tiān, which is pronounced TYEN or "T-N".‘A piece of sky’ is yí-kuàir tiān. Anciently in China a fox was called a “fool” or “foolee”.Now foxes are called “hoolee,” spelled húli. They changed f to h.
Anciently some Chinese thought of a cave as a dark place of DOOM. Change the "m" of DOOMto "ng" and you have DOONG.That’s what caves are called now.It is spelled dòng.‘Cave’ or ‘den’ is dòng. Animals dwell indens and have to WOO a mate, otherwise their species will die out: ‘Animals’ isdòngwù ‘Tree leaf’ is shùyè.It sounds like SHOE YEAH.To say ‘a leaf’ or ‘one leaf’ in Chinese, you have to put in a “measure word.”The “measure word” for leaf is piàn (pronounced pyen or P-N).‘Three leaves’ is sān-piàn shùyè. ‘One leaf’ (or ‘a leaf’) is yī-piàn shùyè. A fun word of instruction: To make any of the animals plural (geese vs. goose), all you have to do is say something before the word--like a bunch ofé , or threehúli. It's so simple! Chinese is great that way! In English we're redundant (3 geese--both the word 3 and the word geese indicate plural), but in Chinese they are efficient and only need one plural indicator. 项目1. 学习和搭配: 请将这个powerpoint读到能熟悉所有生词为止。最重要的是开心点你听完及搭配了正确的单词和图片你按回车来确认或修改。
按这个录音，跟着读。
介绍： 你将学习讲故事给你朋友听当他们会为听到你用英语说这个故事而感到惊讶。 你刚开始学习这个故事时, 你会用一些英文字, 和中文编织在一起. 然后当你练习讲故事的时候, 你将能加上更多更多的英文。,知道最后你能用英文述说整个故事。
很快你将能表演一个又一个的故事. 这样你会对英语更熟悉，你也能更流利的用英语讲故事。
这是个关于动物的故事。– 很迷信的动物。全都是因小鸡而引起的，这只小鸡被一片树叶吓到了, 一个leaf掉到它头上。
Mnemonics:
"Gee" that chickie is cute! Jī is a word for domesticated fowl. Chickie ‘little/baby chicken’ sounds something like "she yeow ji. In pinyin it is written like this: xiǎojī
Hens don't say "moo" but ‘hen’ in Chinese is a "moo" ji (mother jī). In pinyin it is written like this: mǔjī
Turkey, another domesticated fowl, also has "jī" at the end, but listen to this first part "huo" – pronounced something like whoa! with a strong h-sound. Huǒ is ‘fire.’ A Huǒjī is a ‘fire fowl,’ – a name chosen because of tom turkeys’
colorful tail feathers.
Ducks waddle around in YARDS. In Chinese, yadz is ‘duck’ or ‘ducks’. It sounds something like YARDS minus the r-sound. It is spelled yāzi.
Geese make a sound like “uh, uh, uh. That’s how they got their Chinese name, spelled é and pronounced “uh.”
In Chinese, ‘a piece’ (of something) sounds a bit like E SQUARE. Drop the s and you have E QUARE. Make the vowel of QUARE rime with BAR and you have E QUAR. ‘Sky’ in Chinese is tiān, which is pronounced TYEN or "T-N". ‘A piece of sky’ is yí-kuàir tiān.
Anciently in China a fox was called a “fool” or “foolee”. Now foxes are called “hoolee,” spelled húli. They changed f to h.
Anciently some Chinese thought of a cave as a dark place of DOOM. Change the "m" of DOOM to "ng" and you have DOONG. That’s what caves are called now. It is spelled dòng. ‘Cave’ or ‘den’ is dòng.
Animals dwell in dens and have to WOO a mate, otherwise their species will die out: ‘Animals’ is dòngwù
‘Tree leaf’ is shùyè. It sounds like SHOE YEAH. To say ‘a leaf’ or ‘one leaf’ in Chinese, you have to put in a “measure word.” The “measure word” for leaf is piàn (pronounced pyen or P-N). ‘Three leaves’ is sān-piàn shùyè. ‘One leaf’ (or ‘a leaf’) is yī-piàn shùyè.
A fun word of instruction: To make any of the animals plural (geese vs. goose), all you have to do is say something before the word--like a bunch of é , or three húli. It's so simple! Chinese is great that way! In English we're redundant (3 geese--both the word 3 and the word geese indicate plural), but in Chinese they are efficient and only need one plural indicator.
项目1. 学习和搭配: 请将这个powerpoint读到能熟悉所有生词为止。最重要的是开心点你听完及搭配了正确的单词和图片你按回车来确认或修改。
搭配:将以下英文词翻成中文, 然后听录音看你答对了没.
1. Chick
2. Hen
3. Turkey
4. Duck
5. Goose
6 Fox
7 Den/cave
8 A leaf
9 Animal(s)
放录音将中文翻成英文。
1. 鸭子
2. 狐狸
3. 小鸡
4. 动物
5. 鹅
6. 母鸡
7. 一块儿天
8. 一片树叶
9. 洞
Now go through the recordings one more time and try to say each Chinese word with the speaker. How did you do?